HIGH SPEED LURES CATCH FISH!Until the late 1960's trolling for big game fish was done primarily with natural baits, rigged to swim life real fish. These trolling baits were usually trolled on flat lines or in out riggers in a four or five bait spread. in the late 1960's many tournament prosbegan to troll Daisey chains rubber squid off their riggers as teasers, from whichhungry fish could be baited off the teasers.

The first plastic high speed lures were introduced by pioneers like Bob Schneider, who tested his earliest lures behind Navy destroyers in the South Pacific. Bob waslater statIoned in Andros Island Bahamas, and introduced his lures to the Bahama'sBillfish anglers community in 1969 at club tournaments Chub Cay, Bahamas. Captainjack Stevens, fishing with sport fishing pioneer Charlie Johns on the Datona 43 was one of the first captains to troll these new lures at speeds up to 15 knots. I fished with jack and Charlie in two tournaments that year and we could nOt keep the big fish(Blue Marlin, White Marlin, Wahoo and big Dolphin) off those high speed trolling lures made by Bob Schneider. Almost instantly the high speed lure became the standard for catching really big fish. The excitement created by the increased speed made the fish much more aggressive.